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The US produces 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste per year. There's also about 90,000 metric tons in storage. Falcon Heavy is the most cost effective rocket
by thinkcontext 6y ago
The US produces 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste per year. There's also about 90,000 metric tons in storage.
Falcon Heavy is the most cost effective rocket in operation. For $90M it can send 8 tons to GTO (its harder to get things into the sun but the numbers are available for GTO).
So just the launching would cost would be $22.5B per year. And it would be $1T to take care of the existing waste. But that's way too low because transporting the waste and preparing it for launch would be very expensive in itself.